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Real Quotes by James A. Baldwin
- The real victim of bigotry is the white man who hides his weakness under his myth of superiority.
- Unless a writer is extremely old when he dies, in which case he has probably become a neglected institution, his death must always be seen…
- If you're treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they're real…
- We cannot discuss the state of our minorities until we first have some sense of what we are, who we are, what our goals are,…
- The interior life is a real life, and the intangible dreams of people have a tangible effect on the world.
- A real writer is always shifting and changing and searching.
- The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art
- Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the…
- If you are going to be a writer there is nothing I can say to stop you; if you're not going to be a writer…
- Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity, the…
- Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers…
- One writes out of one thing only--one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter,…
- There exists among the intolerable degraded, the perverse and powerful desire to force into the arena of the actual those fantastic crimes of which they…
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